Posted on 04/08/2020 6:22:37 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Critics of the Food and Drug Administration were long ignored as they tallied up the casualties in the “invisible graveyard” of Americans who died because of the FDA’s antiquated policies. But now one small part of that graveyard has suddenly become visible—and the need for reform has become glaringly obvious.
Americans are dying daily because of FDA regulations that have repeatedly delayed testing for the Covid-19 virus and impeded the manufacture and deployment of masks and other protective equipment. The agency’s obstructionism has angered the public—and prompted a search for scapegoats at the FDA and the White House—but there’s nothing unusual about these deadly delays. They’re an inevitable consequence of the FDA’s rules and its charter to allow only medical treatments and devices that its cautious bureaucrats have decreed to be “safe and effective.” This philosophy is conservatively estimated to be responsible for tens of millions of deaths of people waiting for the FDA to approve treatments for cancer, heart disease, and other ailments.
FDA officials insist that they’re moving during the pandemic at unusually rapid speed—and, unfortunately, that’s true. The pandemic simply reveals how lethal red tape can be, even when the agency’s leaders are trying to cut it. The debacle isn’t due to any one person or one mistake, but rather to the welter of esoteric regulations that have continually slowed the battle against the virus for the past three months.
In mid-January, a German test for identifying the virus was distributed by the World Health Organization and used in other countries to confront the pandemic early. American doctors could not use the test because it hadn’t received the imprimatur of the FDA, which instead authorized another test from the Centers for Disease Control. That test took longer to develop and proved faulty.
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The FDA needs to be Phoenixed.
When this is over fully 70% of the FedGov needs to be gutted like a fish and left to bleed out.
Without mercy.
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Drain the swamp.
True before.
True now.
True in the future.
I don’t see it happening but will be on the horn to my Senators and Congress critter.
Enough is enough.
FDA - Foot Dragging Administration
Scrap the FDA and the CDC. THEN dress fauxci and Blix as baby seals and let me have a couple swings.
If the president kept pushing them, they could cure cancer by the end of is administration.
Having dealt with the FDA for many, many years (on the med device side), I can attest to their Byzantine rules and snail’s pace. Miss sitting an “i”, kiss approval goodbye, but you won’t hear about it for a month. They absolutely will NOT call you up and say, “make a tiny correction to this sentence,sign, email to us.”
They are not on Team America. They revel in being the bad cop who says, “No.” And boy, you better kiss the ring!!!
President Fauci is not in the drug approval branch. Not in their org chart. Has zero authority over approving or denying use of new drugs.
But you wouldn’t know it from the press conferences. Trump and the press treats him like, well, “President of Approval of all med responses and drugs.”
Why Trump lets him assume this implies power role is beyond me. It may be due to his well known germaphobe quirk.
Timeline: The Regulations—and Regulators—That Delayed Coronavirus Testing
There have been three major regulatory barriers so far.
March 20,2020
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